What is "wryly"

Usage examples of "wryly".

Campion, ever anxious to be affable, smiled wryly round his handkerchief.

Boston the idiom of choice for the male sex-organ is: Unit, which is why Ennet House residents are wryly amused by E.

I glanced wryly at Joscelin, gazing shoreward with keen interest, vambraces glinting as he leaned on the rail.

He stood up, smiling wryly, and took an empty seat in an adjoining salon.

He did that, he thought wryly, but he intended to watch Karela with an eye to treachery.

If the ship toppled instead of going up, thought Leeming wryly, the whole lot of them would race for sanctuary with burning backsides.

DiGeorge smiled wryly, thinking of Screwy Looey Pena as his Chief Enforcer.

He heard Lowry coping, asking her, patiently, to recite everything she knew on the subject of the care and welfare of Royal sorkis, and he had to grin, wryly.

Thomas said, wryly, as he let himself relax into the pool, savoring its comforts before steeling himself to get out, dress himself, feed himself, and take a trip to the center of what Lumen called the galaxy--implying thereby that the Milky Way was merely one sidereal system among many.

Thomas said, wryly, as he let himself relax into the pool, savoring its comforts before steeling himself to get out, dress himself, feed himself, and take a trip to the center of what Lumen called the galaxyimplying thereby that the Milky Way was merely one sidereal system among many.

Clients were not exactly breaking down her door, she mocked herself wryly.

Minutes later, freshly groomed and dressed to kill or be killed, she thought wryly she used her car cellular phone to call information for the number of the Hillstar Ambulance Company.

Zhang Yushu and Ravi Rashood smiled wryly at the dazzling skill and brevity of the exchange.

But he would hardly come at this late hour, no matter how much grief he might be suffering, Masson thought, grinning wryly.

In fact, Paul reflected wryly, this world should be safe even from the depredations of the photino birds.